Trust Me: TNT TV Series Cancelled, No Season Two

To little surprise, TNT has cancelled their low-rated drama, Trust Me. Despite having two former network stars as the show’s leads, the series never took off.

Trust Me revolves around a fictional Chicago ad agency. Tom Cavanagh and Eric McCormack play co-workers and friends whose relationship changes when one of them gets promoted. Others in the cast include Geoffrey Arend, Sarah Clarke, Mike Damus, Griffin Dunne, and Monica Potter.

The show debuted on January 26th of this year, following TNT’s successful The Closer. It attracted 3.4 million viewers, losing about half of its lead-in’s audience. The second episode dropped to just 1.9 million viewers and things got worse from there. The network began airing episodes in double doses by mid-March and the last two installments ran on April 7th.

McCormack obviously saw the writing on the wall and signed on to a new ABC pilot last month. Now, TNT has made it official, announcing that Trust Me won’t be returning for a second year.

The network’s executive VP and head of programming, Michael Wright, believes that Trust Me was a creative success but just couldn’t find an audience.

I loved it , it was a good show. It makes me sad that it is not returning. Maybe if a lot of people buy the season on dvd it might come back, just with a few different actors. I also think it wasn’t given a chance.

My friend and I work for an ad agency and “trust me” was so right on. First got hooked on Mad men which is awesome, but more like a soap opera and moves slow. Trust me was so funny and fast paced. I could have watched 4 hours straight without being bored. I don’t think they gave it enough time, you had to get to know the characters…
Any chance of some other station picking it up?

I’m finally watching the the final three episodes that I captured on DVR. I LOVE this show, but the time slot and network were a challenge — late and obsecure. This show is complex and the characters quirky and memorable. It’s a gem, and I hate it’s not coming back.

What a superb show. I work in a large PR firm and Trust Me was very true to life — from the job struggles, office dynamics, high pressure tensions, nutiness and occasional but redeeming flashes of decency. I loved it when the older executive got laid it off and ended up in a fistfight with his protegee. Man, I’ve been there. Great show and a shame to see it go.

When I heard about the cancellation of the show the other day I was bummed as well, but I believe the reason why we all love it so, might have to do with the fact that the viewers might be involved in the marketing realm. Iam in creative marketing and graphic design so I can relate to the show. The general population who is in our field I guess wasn’t enough to keep it going. Plus, even though I loved the show(I only seen one episode) never really had the time to watch it anyway..so..still tragic..TNT sucks..

I know this post is a day late and a dollar short, and nobody will ever even read it, however, I’ve gotta say- Trust me people, I’m so done watching TNT.

Not because I’m mad at TNT for canceling my favorite show, “TRUST ME,” but because it was the only show on TNT that I ever watched.

Sure, I saw one or two other shows here and there, but TNT never kept my interest with any other show. So TNT earned some major cool points with the release of the “TRUST ME” series. Then, they lost those points by giving up on the show too soon.

There was NOTHING else on TNT or any other network that came close to having the wit, speed, angle, and character that “TRUST ME” possessed. Never will be.

this comment is for henry b. Tom C. is not unappreciated, you mentioned “Love Monkey” without mentioning his biggest hit of all “Ed”. My all-time favorite show. I will watch any show he is in, I even watched a crappy thriller called “Sublime”. His acting was good, story was horrible.